A review of the “Netwar” going on over the Iran protests, from BBC Monitoring.
SacredFacts: Iranian elections spark “netwar”
Media feature by BBC Monitoring on 17 June
Online supporters of the defeated presidential Iranian candidate Mir-Hoseyn Musavi have been engaging in a carefully orchestrated “netwar” against pro-government websites as the Tehran authorities tighten their grip on both the mass media and the internet.
Iranians have been actively blogging and posting to Facebook and YouTube images and videos of protests both for and against the re-election of Mahmud Ahmadinezhad for another four-year term.
Activists using Twitter accounts have been urging supporters to use simple hacking tools to flood pro-government websites and stop them from loading.